Meag And The City: 7,702 Translations and a Weekend of Royalty

I know I have been failing on blogging... But here is an update on everything!!

At work, I was asked to do a sample of translations for Vonage. Emilio had me translate 21 phrases to see if the Art Director and one of the Senior Account Executives approved of my skills. After getting my sample approved, they provided me with 7,702 phrases in Spanish to translate in English - Oh, and the client wants it ASAP. No big deal. This started on Monday afternoon and continued all the way through Friday morning! I translated 400 phrases an hour... These phrases are search terms that people Google about Vonage. Although I was going cross-eyed and could have sworn I was getting carpal tunnel, it was great practice for my Spanish. After completing the entire list on Thursday afternoon, the team looked over my work and only had MINOR changes!!! This was the best news I could have received. I had been successful in translating almost 8,000 phrases?! I came back into work Friday morning to edit the list before sending it out to the client.

This past weekend was a HUGE success :) On Friday after work, Molly, Ashton, and I headed to Central Park for a late lunch. We picked up sandwiches from Loeb Boathouse and headed to a nearby pond. We sat in the park for 3 hours and talked and enjoyed the scenary. This pond is the one with the sailboats you can rent and drive around. It was absolutely gorgeous and one of our new favorite spots!

After the park, Molly, Megan, Ashton, and I went out to a bar called Gatsby's down in SoHo on Spring Street. It was an adorable red little pub! My friend Catherine from work and her brother met us as well. The DJ created mixes of Backstreet Boys with Snow Patrol - definitely revived the old songs.

On Saturday, Molly and I woke up and headed to Citi Field to the Mets game. Prince Harry was in NY for 3 days for his 2nd visit to the city and was throwing the first pitch for the Mets. Since Molly is OBSESSED with the royal family, we decided we'd make it a weekend full of Prince Harry. When we got to the field, we found out we could stay at the field level to watch Harry pitch and then go up to our seats. We got fantastic pictures and enjoyed the adorable redhead laugh about his pitching skills :)

After watching the pitch and grabbing some hot dogs, Molly and I headed up to our seats on the TOP ROW of the stadium! We decided we didn't mind this because we were in the shade and had the perfect breeze blowing on our backs.

Our free hats - so attractive, we know!

Citi Field

After our adventure at Citi Field, we headed back home to meet friends for a late dinner in Greenwich Village before calling it a night.

On Sunday, we headed to Governors Island to watch the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, which Prince Harry was playing in of course! Nacho Figueras was playing in the game as well - he's the Ralph Lauren model :) We arrived to Governors Island at 12:30 and the game started at 3. It was SO hot but luckily we had Molly's umbrella, even though that was only minor help.

the group - Molly, me, Megan, Ashton, and Rian

After taking lots of pictures of the polo field to distract ourselves, the game finally started! We then were quickly entertained to watch Harry and Nacho prance around.